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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.
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Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a rational understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, irrational yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
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Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.
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